Chotuc
| Chotuc | ||
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 Chapel of St. Trinity on the Chotuc |
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| height | 235 m nm | |
| location | Czech Republic | |
| Mountains | Bohemian table | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 16 '2 " N , 15 ° 7' 10" E | |
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The Chotuc (German Chotutz ) is a wooded hill in the Czech Republic . It has been protected as a nature reserve since 1998.
location
The Chotuc rises one and a half kilometers west of Křinec above the valley basin of the Křinecká Blatnice, which flows around the hill in the north and east. The surrounding villages are Bošín , Křinec, Hrubý Jeseník , Mečíř and Sovenice .
history
During the Hallstatt and La Tène periods between the 6th and 5th centuries BC, there was a hill on the hill . A fortress that became extinct in the course of the Celtic immigration. Since that time the mountain became a pagan place of worship into the Middle Ages. This was destroyed in the course of Christianization and in the 13th century the chapel of St. Trinity built. In 1357 the chapel was expanded into a church. In the 18th century the church was changed to Baroque style and renovated in the 19th century. Then began a period of decline. In 1953 the cemetery around the church was closed. In 1995 the dilapidated church was renovated.
At the southern foot of the hill on the road from Křinec to Mečíř there is a Jewish cemetery, which has been restored from a neglected state since the 2000s.